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Every Cyber Attack Facing America | Incognito Mode | WIRED

Coordinated attacks on electrical grids. Quantum computers making encryption technology useless. Deepfakes that are nearly impossible to discern from reality, or an army of AI agents hacking networks with once unthinkable-speed and efficiency. These are only a few of the threats that could be facing the United States in the very near future—if we aren’t…

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Coordinated attacks on electrical grids. Quantum computers making encryption technology useless. Deepfakes that are nearly impossible to discern from reality, or an army of AI agents hacking networks with once unthinkable-speed and efficiency. These are only a few of the threats that could be facing the United States in the very near future—if we aren’t already. Today WIRED takes a deep dive into how vulnerable our current systems and networks are to the future of cyber threats.

0:00 Incognito Mode: The Future of Cyber Threats
0:26 Power Grid Cyber Attack
5:12 Deep Fakes
8:06 Quantum Encryption
12:18 GPS Attacks
14:39 AI Hacking
17:25 Cell Network Cyber Attacks

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79 Comments

  1. @cyber_punk9017

    June 2, 2025 at 2:40 pm

    we have reach at the point where the technology which we have created and will be creating we fear the both

  2. @darkcity925

    June 2, 2025 at 2:50 pm

    I thought the footage of them on the sofa was deepfaked. dude on the left looks like they just aged the host 10 years

  3. @wiki2014

    June 2, 2025 at 3:04 pm

    12:29 maybe i’m missing something but how GPS affects trains?

  4. @FerdinandCesarano

    June 2, 2025 at 3:06 pm

    The fear over deep fakes is tremendously overblown. This is a big issue to us, right now, in this moment of transition, when deep fakes are just emerging. But very soon, everyone will know not to trust photos or videos.

    If you ran up to someone with a drawing on paper, and tried to use that drawing as a basis to make some sort of claim about something, you would not be believed, even by the stupidest person. It won’t be long before people will react to a video or to a supposed photograph in the same dismissive fashion.

    So this deep fake issue is a “problem” that solves itself.

    Note that, in very specialised settings such as in a court case, forensic experts will always be able to authenticate a video or a photo. But outside of that setting, our default assumption for every video and photo will very rapidly come to be that that video or photo is a creation, just like a drawing.

    This is not a bad thing; it is most certainly **not** “a very scary new reality”.

  5. @brownpaperbagyea

    June 2, 2025 at 3:34 pm

    meshtastic stock goin up ty andy u the goat

  6. @professorsaul8851

    June 2, 2025 at 3:44 pm

    7:57 This is what my family does to avoid deep faked scams. My grandma almost got caught up in one of these by someone impersonating my cousin, so we came up with a code word only the family knows that we have to say in cases of money or anything scanner might ask for

  7. @illeun1615

    June 2, 2025 at 3:59 pm

    Дякую за відео

  8. @Nadi-Ger

    June 2, 2025 at 4:13 pm

    maybe we get the olden times messengers back.. on a horse, bike, whatever 😉

    • @guitarsoundsaround

      June 2, 2025 at 7:06 pm

      Wouldn’t hurt my feelings going back in tech time.

  9. @kke8901

    June 2, 2025 at 4:24 pm

    wikileaks vault7…. just sayin

  10. @mam_kanal_na--Rumble_i_Odysee

    June 2, 2025 at 4:30 pm

    ❤ *Use GrapheneOS, don’t use garbage like Meta, Microsoft etc.*

  11. @moonasha

    June 2, 2025 at 4:33 pm

    it doesn’t even have to be a cyber attack. In fact, it probably won’t be. Remember, Joe Biden let in millions upon millions of undocumented people who have just … disappeared into our country. I have a much easier time explaining this now thanks to what Ukraine did yesterday. Imagine that incident with the russian air assets, but far more widespread, with far more capable technology like 500km+ range drones since we don’t jam anything, on a huge range of strategic assets like substations and railway bridges. This is a nightmare scenario.

  12. @TheBlueArcher

    June 2, 2025 at 4:47 pm

    It’s funny, because deepfake security protocol is sounding like sci-fi shows with shapeshifters.

  13. @foley123

    June 2, 2025 at 4:59 pm

    Over the coming weeks we will see more and more news stories that will scare people. Justification for going to war needs to be created.

  14. @colin.manuel

    June 2, 2025 at 5:12 pm

    Go Meshtastic Go

  15. @kritikusi-666

    June 2, 2025 at 5:19 pm

    Boring. Nice production though.

  16. @TanukiYT

    June 2, 2025 at 6:01 pm

    A recent video actually showed a paper about an AI agent actually finding a zero day exploit in the Linux kernel. It’s already possible.

  17. @DimitriNikita-d5h

    June 2, 2025 at 6:19 pm

    Finally found a channel that actually shares without making it complicated.

  18. @K12127

    June 2, 2025 at 6:26 pm

    7:55 we go back to in person interactions

  19. @rafaeldegiacomoaraujo8778

    June 2, 2025 at 6:39 pm

    Funny to hear that for north Americans the danger is always a foreigner. Massive murder rate and a no public health care but the issue is China.

  20. @Aurianbuyss

    June 2, 2025 at 6:40 pm

    ngl this seemed like a Simon Whistler look-a-like Convention

  21. @TerrySitu

    June 2, 2025 at 7:11 pm

    Let’s keep it simple. What America did to the world is what the world will do to the U.S.A.

  22. @nenjabim3754

    June 2, 2025 at 7:22 pm

    Alternate dimesion Simon?

  23. @Rkcuddles

    June 2, 2025 at 7:57 pm

    16:45 can someone elaborate please? Doesn’t the same argument allow security researchers and programmers to expose and patch their own vulnerabilities before adversaries run their LLMs to try and do it?

  24. @xliquidflames

    June 2, 2025 at 9:03 pm

    1:18 Crash Override? Someone is a fan of the 1995 film _Hackers_ starring Johnny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie. Hack the planet!

  25. @MarkMark

    June 2, 2025 at 9:24 pm

    I have a couple of meshtastic devices and they are fun, but… has anyone trustworthy and deeply technical evaluated the algorithm and its implementation on these lilygo devices? Like, does it have a basic 0 day vulnerability that could be used to bring it down?

  26. @HappyFelie

    June 2, 2025 at 10:08 pm

    A paper on an AI agent discovering a zero-day exploit in the Linux kernel was shown in a recent film. It’s already feasible.

  27. @MrZZ-py4pq

    June 2, 2025 at 10:34 pm

    We need a us cyber force military branch.

    • @joMojojojo

      June 3, 2025 at 3:13 pm

      It’s crazy that countries don’t have full cyber armies, yet. Only China takes this seriously

  28. @robumf

    June 2, 2025 at 11:52 pm

    I think a good Idea for a metastatic, or similar device is monitoring the large electrical pylon. Near the base Primary for fire protection and for security.
    Temperature, electrostatic luminous flux and audio spikes.could be manufactured inexpensively. Sent hourly and specific conditions. Maybe the large electrical cables might already producing enough energy to power the device.

  29. @bryanmccaffrey4385

    June 3, 2025 at 12:33 am

    Anyone remember power outage on East coast in 2003?

  30. @devonkentao

    June 3, 2025 at 12:37 am

    A totally brilliant episode about the true future we’re living in and heading toward. Lots of fabulous technology still to come. However, low-tech still has its charms in any apocalyptic scenario. I hadn’t heard of meshtastic, but I’ll look into it further; I think it offers great potential. Cheers!

  31. @johnw7188

    June 3, 2025 at 1:45 am

    DUDES, AI attacks you described are MONTHS out. Power, radio and GPS attacks are old hat.

    Geez, folks. Get with it. 😅

  32. @efrazier-s01

    June 3, 2025 at 2:08 am

    A little surprised to not see ransomware discussed, particularly for hospital/health systems.

  33. @Havinnnnnnn

    June 3, 2025 at 3:51 am

    arent there quatum computers already here

  34. @ES50678

    June 3, 2025 at 5:32 am

    17:43 the segment should be called first world problems

  35. @kalfunai

    June 3, 2025 at 9:16 am

    So America is doing nothing while ita adversaries are doing all these things.

  36. @powerhour4602

    June 3, 2025 at 9:32 am

    MFA for video conference lmao!!!!

  37. @12thDecember

    June 3, 2025 at 10:06 am

    @ 14:50, this camera angle is consistently used in almost every Incognito Mode episode I’ve seen. It adds nothing. Video viewers aren’t sitting in a balcony looking down at the speaker. Just my opinion, it’s a distracting and outmoded technique.

  38. @topofthegreen

    June 3, 2025 at 10:10 am

    China could easily shut us down.

  39. @milworm432

    June 3, 2025 at 10:57 am

    These two are related.

  40. @gorgthesalty

    June 3, 2025 at 11:56 am

    Crash Override is a Hackers movie homage.

  41. @Dogwatcher

    June 3, 2025 at 12:05 pm

    The generation , new enigma problem to solve

  42. @curtishoffmann6956

    June 3, 2025 at 12:22 pm

    Rather than worry about quantum computing, why not look at GPU cluster computing? Hashed password files can be broken within a few hours with a small cluster of 12-16 GPU cards. What happens if a country decides to back a cluster farm of thousands of GPUs just to crack hashed files of passwords up to 20 characters long?

  43. @carlosoruna7174

    June 3, 2025 at 12:42 pm

    Grids are weak and easily attacked

  44. @Itwasonlytime

    June 3, 2025 at 12:50 pm

    I thought he was talking to himself for a second

  45. @ProfessionalBirdWatcher

    June 3, 2025 at 4:40 pm

    I don’t think these guys understand cybersecurity or cryptography

  46. @johnpooley7562

    June 3, 2025 at 5:21 pm

    Meshtastic is way too high frequency and low bandwidth. Go UHF instead

  47. @Elemental-l9i

    June 3, 2025 at 7:00 pm

    This is just fear mongering for views

  48. @schobes

    June 3, 2025 at 7:38 pm

    I would implore everybody to look up the live cyber threat page…

  49. @eksadiss

    June 3, 2025 at 11:34 pm

    Way too many bald people with glasses in tech

  50. @Cadence256

    June 4, 2025 at 12:37 am

    Hideo Kojima has entered the chat.

  51. @apolodelsol

    June 4, 2025 at 12:46 am

    btw, AMERICA is a CONTINENT, not a country 🌎

  52. @press_button_for_assistance

    June 4, 2025 at 1:44 am

    You guys do know that Crash Override is one of the characters in the movie ‘Hackers’?

  53. @papamurphsturf2901

    June 4, 2025 at 4:45 am

    Someone should have grown their hair out for this interview. I don’t know who I’m looking at lol.

  54. @JoVinckier

    June 4, 2025 at 5:19 am

    Thanks for pitching meshtastic. That’s an interesting application!

  55. @Tito-sq1kb

    June 4, 2025 at 9:09 am

    The biggest threat to America is corruption and greed

  56. @edd7297

    June 4, 2025 at 10:01 am

    Haha I specialize in offline tools. 🤙🤙

  57. @urbanstrencan

    June 4, 2025 at 10:39 am

    The future of cyber security is just scary

  58. @loremipsum685

    June 4, 2025 at 2:04 pm

    Meanwhile the average user still uses the exact same password everywhere for 10 years and still falls for the most basic phishing attempts

  59. @abdirahmanabdul2788

    June 4, 2025 at 2:07 pm

    Thanks for the upload🎉🎉🎉

  60. @The_Trucker_Dave

    June 4, 2025 at 4:54 pm

    Texas is its own thing…for some reason is just a perfect statement about us.

  61. @TheFredrickH

    June 4, 2025 at 8:52 pm

    Harvard is training Chinese students for their ability to attack US electricity grid.

  62. @emorysmith197

    June 4, 2025 at 9:39 pm

    Meshtastic…… P2P decentralized network. Cutting esge. Just newly developing. (Well, quickly evolving, but its been around several years.)

    • @SynsofMusic

      June 5, 2025 at 11:31 pm

      It sounds like AirTags kicked up a notch. The guest even states that other devices need to be in the mesh network in order for a single device to send a message. But if the system does well in urban areas with numerous devices, how can it be reliable in remote areas with no devices as the end of the video shows, and states it can be used for areas with poor cell coverage?

  63. @MaxR52

    June 5, 2025 at 11:56 am

    Bald beard bros

  64. @mindofmyown333

    June 5, 2025 at 12:36 pm

    It’s really a scary time to be in IT. I feel like I can’t learn fast enough and what I do learn feels disjointed because by the time I’ve wrapped my head around it, it’s already changed.

    • @geobanaag387

      June 8, 2025 at 3:29 am

      Learn IT architecture

  65. @akiisho

    June 5, 2025 at 3:47 pm

    DO NOT LET THE NEW SPENDING BILL PASS they want no new AI legislation for TEN YEARS we will no longer exist

  66. @MattBraun

    June 5, 2025 at 9:26 pm

    Why are so many people talking about China attacking the US??? They already beat the US economically and have never been interested in global colonialism agressively. China is more interested in long-term things instead of petty wars. (total waste of money and focus)

  67. @CoffeeShopCloud

    June 6, 2025 at 2:22 am

    A says Well Needed: Job Employment: Save Comedi

  68. @anurupaanurupangate7385

    June 6, 2025 at 5:52 am

    great ❤️

  69. @skatultiwari

    June 6, 2025 at 6:03 am

    wow nice 🙏

  70. @AdityaYadav-450

    June 6, 2025 at 6:03 am

    Anxiety kept me in a state of constant exhaustion, mentally drained and physically tired. I thought this was just my normal until a friend recommended Shift Your Mind by Alexander Brooks. It completely shifted how I approach anxiety, giving me the ability to cope effectively. Small changes made a huge difference ❤️

  71. @smuckerpablo

    June 6, 2025 at 7:46 am

    nerds take boosters

  72. @lokipokey

    June 6, 2025 at 2:24 pm

    Wow what a huge amount of information packed into a relatively brief 20 minutes. I love the idea of the low-tech, community-based meshtastic system backing people up in case of a high-tech Cyber attack, or network overload in the event of a natural disaster. Don’t know how much adoption I could get in my rural Iowa small town. But we are pretty high tech here, having had 100 MBS fiber up and down since around 2005.

  73. @JMelodys

    June 6, 2025 at 3:31 pm

    two bald guys just hashing it out, i love it <3

  74. @Puddlepiratesince1953

    June 8, 2025 at 11:14 am

    Ppl grew up next to a modem and server, have lost the ability to have a, ‘gut feeling’.
    They cant fathom.
    They have to be told EVERYTHING.

  75. @WARPAIN88

    June 8, 2025 at 11:22 am

    I am pretty sure the U.S. military has their own power grid.

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